Adoption and Children Bill — Suitability Of Adopters — 4 Nov 2002 at 20:15
Anne McIntosh MP, Vale of York voted in the minority (No).
Whilst in the commons for the first time, the Adoption and Children bill was amended to allow unmarried heterosexual and homosexual couples to adopt children. However, when the bill went to the Lords, they rejected the amendment and reinstated the original "married couples only" rule. Back in the commons, the aye voters in this division sought to reject the modification in the Lords and allow umarried heterosexual and homosexual couples to adopt.
The House divided: Ayes 344, Noes 145.
Party Summary
Votes by party, red entries are votes against the majority for that party.
What is Tell? '+1 tell' means that in addition one member of that party was a teller for that division lobby.
What are Boths? An MP can vote both aye and no in the same division. The boths page explains this.
What is Turnout? This is measured against the total membership of the party at the time of the vote.
Party | Majority (Aye) | Minority (No) | Both | Turnout |
Con | 8 | 118 (+2 tell) | 0 | 78.5% |
DUP | 0 | 4 | 0 | 80.0% |
Independent | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
Independent Conservative | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
Lab | 288 (+2 tell) | 19 | 0 | 75.4% |
LDem | 44 | 0 | 0 | 83.0% |
PC | 2 | 0 | 0 | 50.0% |
SNP | 2 | 0 | 0 | 40.0% |
UUP | 0 | 2 | 0 | 33.3% |
Total: | 344 | 145 | 0 | 76.1% |
Rebel Voters - sorted by party
MPs for which their vote in this division differed from the majority vote of their party. You can see all votes in this division, or every eligible MP who could have voted in this division
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